12 Years a Slave wins five Independent Spirit Awards

Could the Independent Spirit Awards results from earlier today be foreshadowing what happens with the Academy Awards tomorrow night? Personally, I don’t think so, but the potential is there at least, especially after 12 Years a Slave pretty much dominated the show, taking five awards, including Best Feature, Best Director for Steve McQueen, Best Supporting Actress for Lupita Nyong’o, and Best Screenplay for John Ridley. The other award it won was Best Cinematography, but it’s not nominated for that Oscar, so there won’t be a chance of a perfect correlation here between the two voting bodies.

Among other major categories, Matthew McConaughey won Best Male Lead and Jared Leto won Best Supporting Male for their work in Dallas Buyers Club, while Cate Blanchett took home Best Female Lead for Blue Jasmine. We also had 20 Feet from Stardom winning Best Documentary, Blue is the Warmest Color winning Best International Film, and as previously announced Mud taking the Robert Altman Award.

While there’s no chance of Academy members being influenced here, considering that voting ended earlier this week, 12 Years a Slave finally got the chance to run roughshod over a televised awards show, and that’s something at least. Without competition from American Hustle and Gravity, you can’t be totally sure what this means, but it’s a nice citation for the movie, regardless.

You can see the full Spirit Award winners list below:

BEST FEATURE: 12 Years a Slave
BEST ACTOR: Matthew McConaughey for Dallas Buyers Club
BEST ACTRESS: Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine
BEST SUPPORTING MALE: Jared Leto for Dallas Buyers Club
BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE: Lupita Nyong’o for 12 Years a Slave
BEST DIRECTOR: Steve McQueen for 12 Years a Slave
BEST SCREENPLAY: John Ridley for 12 Years a Slave
BEST DOCUMENTARY: 20 Feet From Stardom
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: 12 Years a Slave
BEST EDITING: Short Term 12
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM: Blue Is the Warmest Color
BEST FIRST FEATURE: Fruitvale Station
BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY: Bob Nelson for Nebraska
ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD: Mud
JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD: This is Martin Bonner
PIAGET PRODUCERS AWARD: Toby Halbrooks and James M. Johnston